MOBILE, Alabama - Five Coastal Alabama players now in the SEC are on the Senior Bowl Watch List of 400 players being considered for the 65th annual all-star game in Mobile.

Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron, who prepped at St. Paul's, and linebacker CJ Mosley, who played at Theodore, are on the Senior Bowl Watch List, which was released today. The list also includes Auburn fullback Jay Prosch from UMS-Wright, Vanderbilt linebacker Chase Garnham from Fairhope and Florida wide receiver Solomon Patton from Murphy.

"Last year, the inaugural Senior Bowl Watch List included 312 prospects with 94 total players ultimately being drafted from our game," said Senior Bowl Executive Director Phil Savage in a press release. "With 60,000-plus athletes playing college football, and only 250 or so NFL draft choices each year, we believe there is some legitimate prestige with being placed on our 'official' Watch List."

Alabama has 10 players on the list, more than any other team. Notre Dame and Ohio State are next with eight players apiece.

With 72 players, the SEC has more on the watch list than any other conference. The ACC is next with 48.

South Alabama has two players on the Senior Bowl Watch List - DT Romelle Jones and LB Enrique Williams.

QB Corey Robinson of Troy and West Alabama CB Malcolm Butler and RB Kedrick Rhodes also are on the watch list.

The watch list has 65 players, like Butler and Rhodes, from outside the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision, including West Texas A&M defensive end Ethan Westbrooks, the 2012 NCAA Division II National Defensive Player of the Year.

"We love the idea of the smaller-school prospects having an opportunity to prove themselves here in Mobile," Savage said, "so it is important that we cast a wide net at this point in our player evaluations."

The Senior Bowl will be played on Jan. 25 at Ladd-Peebles Stadium and will be televised by the NFL Network.

(For a sortable list of all the players on the Senior Bowl Watch List, click here.)